{"id":10778,"date":"2010-02-27T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2020-11-24T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T18:45:15","slug":"time-after-time-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10778","title":{"rendered":"Time After Time (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;What have I done? I&#8217;ve loosed that bloody maniac upon Utopia!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Time-After-Time-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Time-After-Time-Poster-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Time-After-Time-Poster-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Time-After-Time-Poster-662x1024.png 662w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Time-After-Time-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Time-After-Time-Poster-175x270.png 175w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Time-After-Time-Poster.png 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nTo escape the police, Jack the Ripper (David Warner) steals a time travel machine designed by H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) and travels to 1970s San Francisco; Wells pursues him, and finds himself falling in love with a sweet bank teller (Mary Steenburgen) whose life is soon put in danger.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Warner Films<\/li>\n<li>Fugitives<\/li>\n<li>H.G. Wells Films<\/li>\n<li>Inventors<\/li>\n<li>Jack the Ripper<\/li>\n<li>Malcolm McDowell Films<\/li>\n<li>Mary Steenburgen Films<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killers<\/li>\n<li>Time Travel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;entertaining, extremely clever thriller&#8221; is witty, features &#8220;terrific suspense&#8221;, and contains &#8220;three outstanding lead performances&#8221;. Warner is particularly &#8220;memorable as the vicious, intelligent&#8221; Jack the Ripper, who finds himself completely at home in a &#8220;modern&#8221; world full of violence and sexual freedom; he&#8217;s a slick, womanizing, articulate psychopath who knows exactly how to get what he wants. Meanwhile, McDowell and Steenburgen are &#8220;completely charm[ing]&#8221; as a couple (both on-screen and in real-life), with McDowell especially noteworthy as the bespectacled Wells, who manages to cope quite admirably with the &#8220;loose&#8221; society he suddenly finds himself thrown into. Yet one shouldn&#8217;t think <em>too<\/em> closely about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moria.co.nz\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=3751Itemid=0\">the logistics of Wells traveling to the future, then coming back<\/a> to write the remainder of his famous corpus of books, since the film&#8217;s historical veracity starts to break down at around this point&#8230; Instead, <em>Time After Time<\/em> should be watched simply for its suspense, thrills, and clever conceit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: Director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicholas_Meyer\">Nicholas Meyer<\/a> would return to the concept of time travel for his contribution to the &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; film enterprise, <em>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home<\/em> (1986).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malcolm McDowell as Wells<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/time-after-time-mcdowell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/time-after-time-mcdowell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10780\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>David Warner as Jack the Ripper<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/time-after-time-warner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/time-after-time-warner.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10781\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mary Steenburgen as Amy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/time-after-time-steenburgen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/time-after-time-steenburgen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10782\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as a clever and enjoyable sci-fi flick. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?page_id=1784#goodshow\">Good Show<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080025\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&#038;res=9E02E7D81638E732A2575BC2A96F9C946890D6CF\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifimoviepage.com\/time.html\">SciFi Movie Page Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelviews.net\/movies\/t\/time_after.html\">James Berardinelli&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moria.co.nz\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=3751Itemid=0\">SF, Fantasy, and Horror Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.combustiblecelluloid.com\/classic\/timeafter.shtml\">Combustible Celluloid Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/reviews\/79435\/time_after_time.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What have I done? I&#8217;ve loosed that bloody maniac upon Utopia!&#8221; Synopsis: To escape the police, Jack the Ripper (David Warner) steals a time travel machine designed by H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) and travels to 1970s San Francisco; Wells pursues him, and finds himself falling in love with a sweet bank teller (Mary Steenburgen) whose life is soon put in danger. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: David Warner Films Fugitives H.G. Wells Films Inventors Jack the Ripper Malcolm McDowell Films&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10778\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54421,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/54421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}